Miami, FL – USA – 12-01-2023: Welcome to Wynwood Miami mural by artist Luis Valle in the Wynwood art district
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With the usual suspects of Miami Art Week 2025 now out of the way, let’s dig in to the unusual suspects of exhibitions and shows beyond convention centers, gigantic tents and Art Basel Miami Beach. These are the art fair energy events absent the massive art fair crowds. From crypto art vending machines in South Beach hotels to 500-year-future laboratories at the Ritz-Carlton, this year’s alternative programming spans every conceivable intersection of art, technology, and hospitality.
A Detour From Art Basel Miami To The Standard Spa
The Standard Spa, Miami Beach becomes a design-driven detour during Miami Art Week, thanks to Moooi’s full-scale takeover of the hotel lobby and five premier rooms. Each room serves as a sensory installation, complete with custom furniture, carpets, wallcoverings, scents, soaps, and bedding, to give guests the rare chance to sleep inside a design concept. Themes like Milk and Cookies, Evergreen Dream, and Electric Lounge are spliced with mood fragrances developed by EveryHuman.
Moooi also redesigns the lobby to debut Robbie Williams’ Introvert Chair, a sculptural retreat built around the idea of calm inside chaos. The collaboration marks Williams’ entry into furniture design and turns the lobby into a functioning showcase. Gantri adds a second layer with a photobooth pop-up at Café Standard, lit by its signature sustainable lamps. The Standard’s interpretation of Miami’s first week in December is a quiet, design-centric counterbalance to the week’s louder programming.
November 28 – December 7: The Standard Spa, Miami Beach | 40 Island Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Miami, FL, USA – August 22, 2024: Businesses and art galleries full of art and graffiti murals Wynwood Miami Summer
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Savvy art enthusiasts who want to avoid traffic surrounding the usual shows will head to Arlo Wynwood, where the entire hotel transforms into a sophisticated gallery with 250+ works spread across multiple floors. Greg Mike brings his signature “Larry Loudmouf” character and Atlanta street aesthetic to the Higher Ground lounge, while French-born miniaturist François Piacente creates intimate sculptural worlds to examine the relationship between strength and vulnerability. On the third-floor is a PRAZZLE-curated exhibition spotlighting five women artists, including Miami-born Reyna Noriega’s joyful celebrations of women of color and Berlin-based Jade Cassidy’s explorations of resilience.
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December 1-7: Arlo Wynwood | 2217 NW 5th Ave, Miami, FL 33127
Devote a Day (Or Three) to Art Basel Miami’s Alternative Creative Chaos
Also in Wynwood, the city’s most walkable arts district amps up its usual concentrated explosion of creativity with Wynwood BID’s “Get Lost in Wynwood” theme. Beyond Red Dot Miami and Spectrum Miami’s Mana Wynwood takeover, there’s also Arte NXT and photoMIAMI at the Miami Art Week Gallery exploring digital art and visual storytelling. Art With Me returns to the RC Cola Plant with immersive installations, performances, and music. And don’t miss the $25 Dollar Art Show at Toe Jam Backlot, where every original work is priced at exactly $25 and measures 36 square inches or less. Meanwhile, the Wynwood Mural Festival runs through early December with artist-led tours and live painting, showing firsthand how Wynwood maintains its reputation as a street art mecca.
December 2-7: Throughout Wynwood, with major venues at Mana Wynwood, RC Cola Plant, and Miami Art Week Gallery
Ritz-Carlton South Beach’s Futurism and Theater Meet Art Basel Miami
The Brave New Earth transforms The Ritz-Carlton South Beach’s beachfront into a living workshop of the year 2525, where PARTNYC’s award-winning studio creates an ambitious immersive installation. This multi-sensory spectacle blends AI-powered storytelling, emotion-sensing wearables, live performances, and José Andrés Group’s “Menu of the Future” into a utopian vision — part art installation, part theater, part future laboratory. Think Burning Man meets Black Mirror, but with better cocktails.
The experience includes nightly performances at 5 PM, 7 PM, and 9 PM, featuring unreleased compositions by the late Jay Haze and live sets by David Bowie collaborator Jason Lindner. Batakovic’s avant-garde fashion house provides the futuristic aesthetic while sustainable elements like Cup Zero’s reusable drinkware maintain environmental consciousness.
December 2-7: The Ritz-Carlton South Beach | 1 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139
A picture shows different Lavazza advertisings made by famous photographers in the Lavazza museum during the inauguration of the new Lavazza headquartres called “La Nuvola” (the cloud) designed by Italian architect Cino Zucchi in Turin on April 12, 2018. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) (Photo credit should read MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)
AFP via Getty ImagesLavazza Brings Italian Storytelling to Art Basel Miami
As an Official Art Basel Miami Beach Partner, Lavazza is pairing the art of espresso with the art of Alex Webb’s 2026 calendar work, “Pleasure Makes Us Human.” Webb, a Magnum photographer known for his vibrant street photography, explores “La Vita Dolce,” a clever inversion of “La Dolce Vita” that shifts focus from sweet life to life’s sweetness. His images capture those quiet moments of indulgence defining Italian culture, the kind of visual storytelling making Lavazza’s annual calendar a collector’s item among photography enthusiasts who remember when Steve McCurry, Annie Leibovitz, and David LaChapelle all contributed to this unlikely corporate art project. The Design District pop-up at Luxury Living offers interactive recreations of iconic shots alongside the coffee bar.
December 4-6: Luxury Living at the Design District | 50 NE 39th St., Miami Design District
BitBasel: Where Web3 Culture Collides with Art Basel Miami Aesthetic
BitBasel returns to Miami Art Week for its sixth edition at the Sagamore South Beach, this year under a “Fingerprints of Humanity” theme visualizing how tech, culture, and creativity leave a mark. The weeklong program leans heavily into future-facing storytelling, beginning with the Sea & Space Summit linking ocean conservation, space exploration, and art under the guidance of astronaut-artist Nicole Stott. Nights tilt cosmic with MOOON.PARTY Vol. 3, a DJ-driven, immersive audio-visual blowout, and NFT Miami with Superchief NFT Gallery spotlighting digital artists, PFP culture, and Web3-native communities. The Art & Fintech Forum tackles how blockchain and new finance models are reshaping art economics, bringing founders, investors, and technologists into the Miami Art Week conversation.
BitBasel also co-anchors one of the week’s most coveted social rituals, the 24th Iconic Sagamore Brunch, featuring KEF!’s new *Orb of Harmony* sculpture, live performances by the South Florida Symphony Orchestra, and Nicole Stott expanding on her Ocean Planet exhibition. If your Miami Art Week interests skew toward the intersection of crypto, culture, and community-building, this is the hub to plug into.
December 3-7: Sagamore Hotel, South Beach | 1671 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Museum of Graffiti Rewrites the Art Basel Miami Narrative
The Museum of Graffiti uses Miami Art Week to reset the narrative around graffiti’s origins and evolution into a global art form. Its new exhibition, Origins, introduces paintings not seen since their 1973 Razor Gallery debut from United Graffiti Artists PHASE2, FLINT 707, SNAKE 1, and COCO144. Visitors enter through a recreated hardware store stocked with Rust-O, grounding the show in the movement’s DIY beginnings. Running alongside is the new JonOne solo exhibition, El Tiguere, where the Harlem-born artist will also be painting on-site. For collectors tracking where contemporary urban art is headed, this is one of the week’s most substantive stops.
December 3-5: Museum of Graffiti, Wynwood | 276 NW 26th St, Miami, FL 33127
The Gates Hotel’s Multi-Track Experience Parallel to Art Basel Miami
For four days, the Gates Hotel South Beach will be taken over by crypto art, wellness retreats, live murals, and immersive exhibitions. The programming kicks off December 3rd with Ungated Connections, where Bitcoin collectors meet Howard University’s Bison at Basel artists while European visual artist Victoria Citro creates interactive paintings influenced by guest emotions. Thursday’s Listen To Your Heart exhibition brings Venezuelan Emmy-winner SUPERAMA and Miami’s Marlon Pruz together with Colombia’s YuZapata for projection mapping, live mural reveals, and America’s first crypto vending machine dispensing prizes alongside hand-painted tote bags.
The weekend shifts into wellness mode with ByHaze’s Clovis Lane sound-healing sessions and poolside meditations, before climaxing Sunday with EDEN—Chicago painter Tuan Jones’s paradise party featuring Detroit streetwear artist Bandy Lee and an intimate collectors’ brunch. From crypto workshops to cosmic art installations, The Gates is offering a choose-your-own-adventure Art Week experience where blockchain enthusiasts, wellness seekers, and traditional collectors can all find their tribe.
December 3-7: The Gates Hotel South Beach | 2360 Collins Ave., Miami Beach
Miami Beach, FL, USA – December 2, 2022: 2022 Miami Beach At Basel Convention Center
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Art Basel Miami brings the global spotlight, but the city’s parallel programming increasingly dictates a new creative paradigm beyond what makes headlines. These alternative spaces—hotels, rooftops, backlot stages, and hidden galleries—are where artists and brands test new ideas that later become brand campaigns and new collaborations. If you want a full picture of Miami Art Week’s marketing potential, you have to step beyond the convention center.